STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1817

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2021

RE: S.B. No. 1018

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1018, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Health to establish a two-year reorganization pilot project to shift and reorganize the Department's functions, positions, and funding in the Behavioral Health Services Administration; Environmental Health Administration; General Administration, including the Office of the Director of Health; and Health Resources Administration; and

(2) Require the reorganization pilot project to begin with the reorganization of the Department of Health's Behavioral Health Services Administration.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and Hawai‘i Psychological Association.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1018, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair